All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
East Timor: stolen child back home from Indonesia
6 January 2020
by Tjitske Lingsma
After 41 years Arsica was reunited with her parents. She was among more than 4,000 East Timorese children who had been forcibly removed from their families, according to East Timor’s Truth Commission, and taken illegally to Indone [...]
20 December 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Fabien Neretse, a former senior Rwandan civil servant, was found guilty of genocide by a Belgian court. The septuagenarian was convicted of at least eleven murders and three attempted murders, committed in Rwanda in 1994 and quali [...]
20 December 2019
by Justice Info
Justice Info is taking a break from December 23 to January 5. But in the meantime, we bring you ten strong images from 2019. Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s money, technological innovations, environmental justice, a victory for [...]
19 December 2019
by Julia Crawford
The latest evidence gathering body, located in Geneva, is for Myanmar. It is one of the United Nations’ “International, Impartial, Investigative Mechanisms”. How is this new body progressing and what can be expected of it? Justice [...]
17 December 2019
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Tricky task for Belgian jurors to judge a Rwandan for genocide
Fabien Neretse, a Rwandan accused of genocide before a Belgian court, is about to hear the judgment in his case. His fate depends on 12 laymen and women who have no knowledge about the realities of Rwanda in 1994. Scholar and form [...]
17 December 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
“I’m not sure Tunisia’s political parties will advance human rights,” says expert
Law professor and human rights activist Wahid Ferchichi is an expert on transitional justice in Tunisia. Nine years after the revolution in Tunisia and one year after the country’s Truth Commission finished its work, he analyses t [...]
16 December 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian victims still suffering nine years on
Nine years after the Tunisian revolution, which began on 17 December 2010, victims of serious human rights violations are still in great distress. Poorly coordinated care, partial compensation and lack of official recognition are [...]
13 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Myanmar and the Rohingya momentum: what did we hear at the Peace Palace this week?
This week, in a very high-profile International Court of Justice hearing in Den Haag, Gambia asked the UN court to order Myanmar to stop what they denounced as “an ongoing genocide” of the Rohingya muslim minority. Driven by such [...]
13 December 2019
by Thierry Ogier
Unpunished in Brazil, crimes against indigenous people are submitted to the ICC
In Brazil, human rights NGOs have denounced the violations suffered by indigenous people since Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January 2019. Faced with the slowness of the country’s courts, they filed a "communication" to the Pros [...]
12 December 2019
by Christophe Koessler
Draft treaty on multinationals and human rights struggles
Encouraged by the United Nations, States in October resumed talks started five years ago for an international treaty that would oblige multinationals to respect human rights. The project is still under way, even if it is strugglin [...]
10 December 2019
by Joseph Powderly
Does “the lady doth protest” mark the beginning of Myanmar’s reckoning?
The hearings start on Tuesday, 10 December. Aung San Suu Kyi is in The Hague, to defend Myanmar against charges of genocide filed by The Gambia to protect the Rohingya before the International Court of Justice. In a bitterly ironi [...]
10 December 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: On the trail of deadly witch doctors in Jammeh’s region
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been holding public hearings in different villages in Gambia’s countryside. Trying to find out who was responsible for a witch hunt, allegedly ordered by former president Ya [...]
6 December 2019
by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Karinna Fernández, and Sebastian Smart
Exposing the economic accomplices of the Chilean dictatorship
Current events in Chile find their source in the Pinochet regime. The Chilean transitional justice agenda, as in many other countries, has focused on a few civil and political rights violations. Yet, focusing on the behaviour of e [...]
6 December 2019
by Bokar Sangaré and Ephrem Rugiririza
Malian victims to get a voice for a day
On December 8, a dozen victims of arbitrary arrests and detentions will tell people in Bamako about their painful experience. This will be the first public hearing of Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, which has [...]
5 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ecocide and environmental crimes draw public attention at the ICC
It was perhaps the most-talked about topic in the corridors and surrounding cafés at the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, in The Hague this week. How to address climate change-related violations of human rig [...]
5 December 2019
by Maud Sarliève
Climate change: How to make corporations responsible?
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (3/3) This week, the 25th Conference of Parties, or “COP25”, begins in Madrid. Until December 13th, the 196 State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be discussing [...]
4 December 2019
by Shireen Daft
Environmental destruction is (already) a war crime, but is almost impossible to commit
An open letter from 24 scientists, published in the journal Nature in July 2019, calls for the elaboration of a fifth Geneva Convention to protect the environment during armed conflicts. But the destruction of the environment is a [...]
3 December 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Indigenous people are winning court battles
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (2/3) The Amazonian ecosystem is under threat, yet indigenous people have been fighting for it for more than 20 years before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, winning some victor [...]